Sarah A. Hanson-Pareek is an artist and fine arts photographer whose work spans photography, mixed media, video, installation, painting, and printmaking. Concerned with abstractions, ideas, conceptual frameworks, embedded assumptions, and social relations, Hanson-Pareek believes "our entire existence, from birth to death, is a series of chance operations. Even the most earnest attempts at exactitude and intent are comprised of immeasurable chance, culminating in the landscapes we find ourselves in." Alongside her studio practice, she has devoted much of her professional life to the care, preservation, and description of photographs and cultural heritage materials. Her work has often centered on photograph preventive conservation, sub-zero preservation, and the digital imaging of cultural heritage and contemporary materials, joining artistic practice with sustained attention to history, memory, and material culture.